Top 100 Hope Quotes of All Time

A short, finished list rather than an endless feed: 100 of the best hope quotes ever written, picked out of the full hope archive on QuoteForever. You will find Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, John Milton, Joseph Addison and Carl Sandburg among them.

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If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.

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While it is unlikely that poetry or art shall eliminate the reality of war in the twenty-first century, it is thrilling to know there remain individuals, and even entire communities, still willing to invest in art and poetry's own uniquely explosive contributions to the great, and small, dramas of human history.

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The Dying Christian to His Soul (1712) -Vital spark of heav'nly flame! Quit, oh quit, this mortal frame: Trembling, hoping, ling'ring, flying, Oh the pain, the bliss of dying! Stanza 1.

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The mighty hopes that make us men.

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Faith speaks when hope is disassembled; faith lives when hope dies dead.

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For me, there is no hope without faith. Faith is a higher good. Faith in our divinity.

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PHYSICIAN, n. One upon whom we set our hopes when ill and our dogs when well.

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I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again.

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There is a special sadness in achievement, in the knowledge that a long-desired goal has been attained at last, and that life must now be shaped toward new ends.

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I've always said there's no hope without endeavor. Hope has no meaning unless we are prepared to work to realize our hopes and dreams but in order to that we do need to have friends. We need those who believe in us. Friends are those who believe in us and who want to help us whatever it is that we are trying to achieve.

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When every autumn people said it could not last through the winter, and when every spring there was still no end in sight, only the hope that out of it all some good would accrue to mankind kept men and nations fighting. When at last it was over, the war had many diverse results and one dominant one transcending all others: disillusion.

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Who thinks, at night, that morn will ever be? Who knows, far out upon the central sea, That anywhere is land? And yet, a shore Has set behind us, and will rise before: A past foretells a future.

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He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

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Man can be stimulated by hope or driven by fear, but the hope and the fear must be vivid and immediate if they are to be effective without producing weariness.

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Golf is a game that needlessly prolongs the lives of some of our most useless citizens.

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Those who hope for purity and righteousness always try and destroy that which disturbs them. They think the disturbance comes from outside themselves. This is a serious problem. Wars, suicide bombings, and all sorts of other nasty things start from the premise that we can destroy 'evil' outside ourselves without dealing with the evil within.

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Many things are possible for the person who has hope. Even more is possible for the person who has faith. And still more is possible for the person who knows how to love. But everything is possible for the person who practices all three virtues.

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Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.

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I want to do the right thing, but often I don't know just what the right thing is. Every day I know I have come short of what I would like to have done. Yet as the years pass and I see the very world itself, with its oceans and mountains and plains, as something unfinished, a peculiar little satisfaction hunts out the corners of my heart. Sunsets and evening shadows find me regretful at task's undone, but sleep and the dawn and the air of the morning touch me with freshening hopes. Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don't worry about my destiny.

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Time is a great teacher, Who can live without hope?

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We are all the pieces of what we remember. We hold in ourselves the hopes and fears of those who love us. As long as there is love and memory, there is no true loss.

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Hope is a prodigal young heir, and Experience is his banker; but his drafts are seldom honoured, since there is often a heavy balance against him, because he draws largely on a small capital, is not yet in possession, and if he were, would die.

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When you say a situation or a person is hopeless, you are slamming the door in the face of God.

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Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still be a dog. Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement.

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For I am bound with fleshly bands, Joy, beauty, lie beyond my scope; I strain my heart, I stretch my hands, And catch at hope.

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Art is the most beautiful deception of all! And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory.

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Without hope, there is no despair. There is only meaningless suffering.

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All hope abandon, ye who enter here!

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Great men sometimes lose the reins and lose their heads. This time, let us hope that they will retain them and that when victory is assured they will sit down and reckon what the future is going to be for their countries as well as for other lands.

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A wonderful thing happens when you give up on hope, which is that you realize you never needed it in the first place. You realize that giving up on hope doesn't kill you, nor did it make you less effective. In fact it made you more effective, because you ceased relying on someone or something else to solve your problems - you ceased hoping your problems somehow get solved, through the magical assistance of God, the Great Mother, the Sierra Club, valiant tree-sitters, brave salmon, or even the Earth itself - and you just began doing what's necessary to solve your problems yourself.

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The question was put to him, what hope is; and his answer was, "The dream of a waking man."

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Four be the things I am wiser to know: Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe. Four be the things I'd been better without: Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt. Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne. Three be the things I shall have till I die: Laughter and hope and a sock in the eye.

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Thanks be to God, there is hope to-day; this very hour you can choose Him and serve Him.

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There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope.

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The night is past,-joy cometh with the morrow.

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A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

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For one who is indifferent, life itself is a prison. Any sense of community is external or, even worse, nonexistent. Thus, indifference means solitude. Those who are indifferent do not see others. They feel nothing for others and are unconcerned with what might happen to them. They are surrounded by a great emptiness. Filled by it, in fact. They are devoid of all hope as well as imagination. In other words, devoid of any future.

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When strawberries go begging, and the sleek Blue plums lie open to the blackbird's beak, We shall live well--we shall live very well.

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A man's hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.

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by and large, nothing is as bad as you fear, or as good as you hope.

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The only hope [of science] ... is in genuine induction.

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True faith means holding nothing back; it bets everything on the hope of eternity

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We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.

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When fortune surprises us by giving us some great office without having gradually led us to expect it, or without having raised our hopes, it is well nigh impossible to occupy it well, and to appear worthy to fill it.

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It's the children the world almost breaks who grow up to save it.

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People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

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If there is such a thing as sin in this world, I think it must be shutting oneself up against hope.

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No matter how dark the moment, love and hope are always possible.

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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

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Hope is the poor man's bread.

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One only hope my heart can cheer, - The hope to meet again.

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The shadow of human life is traced upon a golden ground of immortal hope.

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I am once more seated under my own vine and fig tree ... and hope to spend the remainder of my days in peaceful retirement, making political pursuits yield to the more rational amusement of cultivating the earth.

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Hope is a risk that must be run.

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Ever since there have been men, man has given himself over to too little joy. That alone, my brothers, is our original sin. I should believe only in a God who understood how to dance.

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We soon get through with nature. She excites an expectation which she cannot satisfy.

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Races, better than we, have leaned on her wavering promise, Having naught else but Hope.

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Yea, though the breath of disappointment should chill the sanguine heart, Speedily gloweth it again, warmed by the live embers of hope.

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Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.

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The short span of life forbids us to take on far-reaching hopes.

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The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.

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Just be what you are and speak from your guts and heart - it's all a person has.

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I am not worried, Harry," said Dumbledore, his voice a little stronger despite the freezing water. "I am with you.

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Science now finds itself in paradoxical strife with society: admired but mistrusted; offering hope for the future but creating ambiguous choice; richly supported yet unable to fulfill all its promise; boasting remarkable advances but criticized for not serving more directly the goals of society.

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Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.

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It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not.

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We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope

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Used with due abstinence, hope acts as a healthful tonic; intemperately indulged, as an enervating opiate. The visions of future triumph, which at first animate exertion, if dwelt upon too intently, will usurp the place of the stern reality; and, noble objects will be contemplated, not for their own inherent worth, but on account of the day-dreams they engender. Thus hope, aided by imagination, makes one man a hero, another a somnambulist, and a third a lunatic; while it renders them all enthusiasts.

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There is a third dimension to traveling, the longing for what is beyond.

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My only hope lies in my despair.

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Hope is a dream deferred.

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Even when there is no longer hope for the body, there is always hope for the soul.

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Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.

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Hope is the second soul of the unhappy.

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Whatever is the object of a saint's hope is the subject of his prayer.

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We always hope, and in all things it is better to hope than to despair.

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Those who have no hope for a future life are already dead for the present one.

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The Mathematics are Friends to Religion; inasmuch as they charm the Passions, restrain the Impetuosity of Imagination, and purge the Mind from Error and Prejudice.

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Give humanity hope and it will dare and suffer joyfully, not counting the cost - hope with laughter on her banner and on her face the fresh beauty of morning.

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The newspapers are full of what we would like to happen to us and what we hope will never happen to us.

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The hope of all who suffer, The dread of all who wrong.

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I hope someday you will join us and the world will live as one.

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Where no hope is left, is left no fear.

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What reinforcement we may gain from hope; If not, what resolution from despair.

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He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things ought himself to be a true poem.

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No one can ask honestly or hopefully to be delivered from temptation unless he has himself honestly and firmly determined to do the best he can to keep out of it.

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Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.

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The humans have a curious force they call ambition. It drives them, and, through them, it drives us. This force which keeps them active, we lack. Perhaps, in time, we machines will acquire it.

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When we let go of wanting something else to happen in this moment, we are taking a profound step toward being able to encounter what is here now. If we hope to go anywhere or develop ourselves in any way, we can only step from where we are standing. If we don't really know where we are standing—a knowing that comes directly from the cultivation of mindfulness—we may only go in circles, for all our efforts and expectations. So, in meditation practice, the best way to get somewhere is to let go of trying to get anywhere at all.

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To be young is to live in the hope of escaping youth; to be old, in the despair of having succeeded.

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He who does not hope to win has already lost.

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The first duty of a man is to think for himself

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If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

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One hope no sooner dies in us but another rises up in its stead. We are apt to fancy that we shall be happy and satisfied if we possess ourselves of such and such particular enjoyments; but either by reason of their emptiness, or the natural inquietude of the mind, we have no sooner gained one point, but we extend our hopes to another. We still find new inviting scenes and landscapes lying behind those which at a distance terminated our view.

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A religious hope does not only bear up the mind under her sufferings but makes her rejoice in them.

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If thy hope be any thing worth, it will purify thee from thy sins.

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Hope is the most exciting thing in life, and if you honestly believe that love is out there, it will come. And even if it doesn't come straight away, there is still that chance all through your life that it will.

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He did not say: You will not be assailed, you will not be belabored, you will not be disquieted, but he did said: You will not be overcome.

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Believing in things you cannot see Even with my trembling arms I want to protect someone dear to me The place my thought that proggressed up to now struggle on to To see hopes Even in a black, confined world

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Hope gives us something to do when we are afraid of what might happen.

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